New Web Column at The Washington Post New Web Column at The Washington Post
I've started writing a weekly web column for washingtonpost.com. I'll be posting every Tuesday at noon. Here's the first one. I welcome your comments.
Feb 9, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Welcome to Palinland Welcome to Palinland
With a nod to Rick Perlstein, Welcome to Palinland. Atop Palinland's Mount Rushmore are Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater. Palinland's Bill of Rights has been edited and redacted...
Feb 8, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Around The Nation Around The Nation
Hopefully you've read Professor Lawrence Lessig's provocative new essay, "How to Get Our Democracy Back." Lessig's piece is essential reading for people across the politi...
Feb 6, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Question Time in Our Democracy Question Time in Our Democracy
"We live in a world that increasingly demands more dialogue than monologue." Those are words from the founding manifesto issued earlier this week by a diverse group of bl...
Feb 5, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
No Defense for This Budget No Defense for This Budget
Deficit hysteria has reached new levels yet where is the attention to anout of control defense budget that is now the largest since World War II? While the Obama Admistration's th...
Feb 2, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Around The Nation Around The Nation
Hopefully everyone had a chance to read what Jeremy Scahill calls the saddest and most moving story he's ever written: his interview with Mohammed Kinani, father of the younge...
Feb 1, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
True Populism True Populism
A very sweet victory in Oregon this week, where voters passed two ballot initiatives to raise taxes on the wealthiest 3 percent of its residents--individuals earning over $125...
Jan 29, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Corporations Ain’t People: Top 10 Responses Corporations Ain’t People: Top 10 Responses
Now that the Supreme Court has ruled that corporations are people, free to flood campaigns with cash contributions so that the voices of, well--real people--are drowned out, the st...
Jan 26, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Around The Nation Around The Nation
This was a rough week for progressives. But will it be our Waterloo--or a turning point? Here's a piece I did for the Wall Street Journal, "Give Up onPost-Partisanship.&...
Jan 22, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Taking on the Banksters Taking on the Banksters
As I've written previously, The Nation is a community defined by spirited--often fractious--debate. But when it comes to what we'retaking away from the Democratic lo...
Jan 21, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel